The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-05-20

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back through the cycles of the past to the
days of Babel and Baalbac and the pyra-
mids of Ghiza, ON which the archaeologist
of the present reads the history of the past,
and We wondered what Archaeological in the
centuries to come will read in the ruins Of
this beautiful temple the history Of to-day.
We next assembled, by elevator, to the
roof of the eastern side of the building.
From this high elevation a beautiful piano.
rama opens up to view. On all sides are
vast aggregations of tile, brick and stone.
Northward stretches the romantic scenery
of the Wissahiekon, southwark rolls the
majestic Delaware, beyond are the fertile
plains of our native State. Far down be-
low is a hurrying, snrging tide of human.
ity. bent on pleasure or on gain. Our
thoughts grow sad and we feel to weep,
like Alexander of old, when We consider
that of the million beings that here live
and move and have a being not one, a CEN
fury hence. will live to walk these streets,
or tell the tale of joy and sorrow, hope and
disappointment, that made this life an Eden
or 4 waste. We Danish thoughts of sad
ness and turn our attention to 4 pinnacle
before us, on which are written names, ap-
parently. out of every tongue under heaven,
evincing mans thirst for perpetual remem-
brance and immortal Tenown. The anti
q~uarian. to-day, reads the name of Thoht-
mes III on the shafts of On, and of 0mri
of old on the Moabite Stone. Rock writ
ten, may ON name not go down the Gen.
turtles to come, and i'll the far-reaching fu-
turc some student of the past learn that We
put on this mortal coil" We resolve to
add our name to the roll of immortals.
About to execute, a figure, issuing out of
Gpmpyuhppa ilrp m nmirauS shirt of ninht
commands a halt. We are assured, in ut
~teranees as prophetic as the ancient oracles
of the Sibyl of Rome, that the condi-
ton of enrolling our name thereon is the
enriehing the treasury of the city to the
amount of Il ''N." Man has climbed AL
pine heights, endured the rigor of Arctic
winters, and tread the burning sands of
equatorial plains for the possession of a
bauble we call Fame, and shall
We not make some sacrifice to
p~erpetuate Il name? But the smell
of bad whisky makes us skeptical of prom
Use, and We are not seeking notoriety
through a station-house door.
Seated in beautiful car in Pennsylvania
railroad train we again feel the pawings of
the hoof of the iron horse. With neigh of
thunder, sweat of steam, and tension Of
muscle of iron we are whirling out of the
city and into the open country. Babbling
brooks, grassy wales and wooded hills give
enchantment to scenery. But, as by a law
of nature, joy has its counterpart in sorrow,
hope in fear, and anticipation in disappoint-
ment. so circumstances beyond our control
mar the pleasure of our farther journey.
The brightness Of the day is shadow
ed with threatening clouds. The balmy
air has given place to an east wind that has
the pinch of Arctic snow. Femanine beau-
ty shrouds itself in wraps of varied hue.
The city clerk and the weather-bronzed son
of toll shrug tEeir shoulders and gather
within their ulsters. beside Us sits a bux-
om dame who has defied the blasts ofsome
five and twenty winters. Her cheeks are
red with the breath of the hills; her sinewy
form suggests a daughter of Hercules. To
our horror she throws open the window
and shifts the frosty air. To her it seems
as grateful as an iceberg to a polar bear.
She draws from beneath the folds of her
garment a double sheet {. the city press.
With streamers flying. she devours its con-
tents from blood-curdling tragedy to mar
ket report. We realize something of the
horrors of the Norsenan's Ginnunga-gap.
Neuralgia sweeps our forecastle and rheu-
matism strikes our keel. Oar feelings to-
wards the buxom dame are not Of a matri-
monial tarn. We resolve that if Eolos
will loan us the winds we will sweep her
upper deck with a Polar cyclone. @, horror,
an exhortation to take physic. Have the
gods conspired? Is Nemesis on a RAM
page? Shade of Anchises pity us. Every
where. in bold characters, on tiled roof and
stone wall, an invitation to Take Schenck's
Mandrake Pills. "reminiscences of calomel
and gripping pains sieken us. Why suspect
our liver? OH doctor, let Rachel have the
unetuous bulb, give us q steam heater.
The iron horse whinnyS, the driver draws
the rein and We are in jersey City. We
take the annex boat for Brooklyn. We
swing around an ocean steamer loaded with
human freight. Another thousand and
more to swell the nood-tide of emigration.
Punched and careworn faces tell a tale of
oppression. Who knows the hardships yet
in store, and the ~yearnings yet to come for
Italian skies and fatherland. Orr boat is
anchored in her moorings and we are DOM
iciled i'll the pleasant home of Colonel john
son and his good lady. Having partakcn
of a bounteous repast We conclude to at
tend the Friday evening service in Brook
lyn Tabernaele. DR.. Talmage on these oc-
casions discusses some secular subject from
4 moral standpoint, after which he conducts
u HldNC1 iitttldAs 4 ~ FNiRtNtN bAN VI
inr was the lives Pool Bill The speak
or said, among other things:
The highest compliment ever rald 10 the
moral sentiment of Brooklyn, was paid by the
senate OF the state OF New York last Nednes
day, when in response to our indignation
meeting the bill was Re crTcd back to the
committee that brooklyn might be heard.
We have u law forbidding gambling. This
bill repeats it. Aha.a hai now You see, ten1por-
iZfng, weak kneed teulpelslnce men,. hat you
were doing when You high Incense
for the purpose of regulating the liquortrafiic.
You were then educating the people into the
belief that YOU could regulate an evil by law,
and as a natural result your Representatives
say ii You can regulate the liquor traffic why
not regulate gambling? Dear Lord Of Heaven
and earth persuade he people that they cannot
regulate any evil by legalizing it. Give =
man the right to sell RIM if he VIII pay $1,000
for a license and you sanction Turnselling by
law. Give the horse jockey the right of pool
selling thirty days if they viii pay ) per cent
Of the gate money and you sanction gambling.
by law. DO that and you commit the infinite
folly OF making the law bend down 10 The
people instead OF fetching the morals mp tothe
law. Never since the day when samuel Chaia-
plain assembled the 81. Lawrence River and dis
s..Vara,i me lIEa named affrr him as tAhu1l-